In 4 days, 17 hours and a handful of minutes, NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory will get serious about monitoring the Earth's carbon dioxide sources and sinks. The observatory is already on-site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, waiting for its impending launch (and delay and rescheduled launch date) and eventual moment in the climate change spotlight.

Archeologists recently discovered the oldest human hairs ever found in a pile of fossilized hyena poop. Between 195,000 and 257,000 years ago, some hapless hunter-gatherer wound up in the belly of the scavenger and subsequently on the floor of a cave in present day South Africa.

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As millions scrambled for gifts or grumbled bitterly in the final 48 hours leading up to Valentine's Day, BBC News reported that any Neanderthal wooing of Homo sapiens likely resulted in heartbreaking rejection.

A graduate student in the university's history department, Marketta was last seen entering Jermyn Hall's expansive basement by permission of Monster Studies Professor Dr. Anton Jessup. Based on her own notes, Vorel apparently sought a nearly forgotten antique in the university's permanent collection: the 300-year-old Bartholomew Glass.